News

The dead body of a male person of African descent was found on Sheriff Street, in the vicinity of Subryanville on Sunday night, the police have reported.

Police in Guyana have arrested one person in connection with T&T$5.3 million cocaine seizure last week in Trinidad, while alleged interference with the investigation by a lawyer is being investigated, according to a press release.

Residents of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have urgent repairs done to a damaged bridge on the Railway Embankment as they fear a serious accident may occur on the bridge.

Talks regarding an agreed framework for enhanced political cooperation between the government and the parliamentary opposition are unlikely to resume before the upcoming Cricket World Cup.

PNCR-1G MP Dr George Norton is recommending that the government commission a study to determine the success or failure rate of the Cuban Miracle Eye Care programme in Guyana.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after over 100 grammes of cocaine, marijuana and a quantity of ecstasy tablets were found at a Princes Street house yesterday afternoon, when members of the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit carried out a raid there.

Carl Hooper abruptly quit international cricket, not because he wanted to be mean, rather the former West Indies captain feels he was forced out of the team well before his planned departure.

The addition of the Buddy’s International Hotel to the skyline of the East Bank of Demerara is undoubtedly a major development and the proprietor Mr Omprakash Shivraj must be complimented for his perseverance and investment.

This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora.

What were your favourite songs at this year’s soca and calypso competitions?

Dear Editor, I hesitated for a long time to write this letter on American and Western foreign policy since all your letter publications on this subject have been of the so-called “liberal” and anti-Bush or anti-Blair genre.

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the middle of a silent, deadly, social upheaval, referred to by one leading Caribbean economist as the “insertion of criminal enterprise into the interstices of the state”, and the recent extraordinary outbursts against Christianity by two government ministers in Parliament (for which they have not apologized; and which still remain part of the official record of that session) illustrate the religious implications.

Dear Editor, Within recent days there were two letters in the newspapers by Mr.

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a few salient points which I read the president make in his speech, at the commissioning of the ‘Buddy’s International hotel.’

Dear Editor, It is with interest that I read in the Stabroek News of Friday 02-23 that the Regional Chairman of Region 2 has instructed the Clerk of the RDC to write the Department of Education on the issue of the beating of a pupil of Charity Primary School by a teacher.

Dear Editor, I recently visited Guyana and enjoyed my visit tremendously.

Michelle John drew first blood in the much anticipated showdown with Trenace Lowe by defeating her arch-rival in the finals of the women’s singles event Saturday night as the National Sports Commission (NSC)/Guyana Table Tennis Association annual Mashra-mani competion continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Carlos La Rose was yesterday named to skipper the Demerara squad for the upcoming Castrol under-15 inter-county cricket competition after two days of trial matches at the Demerara Cricket Club ground.

In an unprecedented move by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) the 2007 national inter-club relay meeting held at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, last Sunday was ruled null and void.

Newcomer on the local track and field scene, Kim Chan, took the Enmore Community Centre ground by storm yesterday when she recorded her first double in her short career at the final installment of the Developmental meeting.